John Woo's Red Cliff is finally coming to the U.S.

You know how on my last post stated the 20 films I'm most excited for, for the fall/winter film season; the part where I discussed the films that suddenly pop up for wide or even mildly wide release thus creating that mad dash to theaters to see it? Remember how I said there was nothing like that so far? Well thank you 6 Shooter Films and Magnet films for you have been the first to totally rape that plan in the face, though it be with a film I've wanted to see for over a year now.


Hong Kong action film king John Woo's triumphant return to cinemas after the two misfires of "Windtalkers" and "Paycheck". He returned to Asian and made what if I remember correctly is the most expensive film in either China or Hong Kong's history. The massive scale epic "Red Cliff" has been out in Asian for I believe two years now and every so often a DVD copy pops up for sale on Amazon, albeit at a much higher cost then most new release DVD's in the states. But it sells rather quickly. Word of mouth has been great and finally we get a lengthy trailer that showcases the exdeedingly epic world Woo has dived into. If you're a fan of his, familer with 'Hard Boiled', 'The Killer', 'Broken Arrow', 'Face/Off' or 'Mission: Impossible-2', then you'll probably agree with me that seeing this setting mixed with his still evident style of action, this looks as if it could be among his greatest pictures. Take a look-see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYFjGH1AZCY

Look for release sometime in November of this year.

Also I'll be having a ton of new reviews up this weekend including: "Zombieland", Ricky Gervais's "The Invention of Lying", Drew Barrymore's directorial debut with "Whip It" and on DVD Steven Soderbergh's drama starring adult film star Sasha Grey "The Girlfriend Experience", which was a little released, but highly praised film of the spring.